0 to complain or express sadness about something: --
Researchers at universities are always bemoaning their lack of funds.
Though some contemporaries bemoaned the feminization of public schooling, there should be little doubt that it was not women who defined this institutional structure.
At most, some of us may at times bemoan the excesses of consumer and celebrity culture.
While bemoaning putatively evaporating state authority, these texts often fail to reassert the values of the broad social and political left.
Recently in a college magazine a writer bemoaned the ever-presence of cellphones.
Opponents of medical charities bemoaned the negative effect of free care on the independence, dignity, and self-sufficiency of the poor.
No longer (so the argument goes) must we bemoan the twentieth-century tendency for telephone conversations to drive out written communication.
Historians across a range of fields bemoan this fragmentation : ' search for synthesis ' could be a shibboleth of the profession.
To claim that only situational effects are real while bemoaning participants' dispositional lack of insight into this important truth is incoherent.
